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  • ’Dignity of Labour’ for African Leaders
    Shoko Yamada
    From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial officials, missionaries, European and American educationists or ideologues in Africa and diaspora. The analysis is prese...
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    57,01 €

  • A Public Spirit
    George H. Atkinson
    George Henry Atkinson (1819-89) was a son of New England who arrived in the Oregon Territory in 1848, sent by the American Home Missionary Society. Although his commission from the Society specified that his work was to be ecclesiastical and educational, he took an approach to that assignment which went well beyond his mandate. Well-informed and energetic, he made an impact on ...
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    10,45 €

  • Mill Dust and Dreaming Bread
    Scott Richardson-Read
    Discover the Hidden Wisdom of Scotland’s Folk TraditionsMill Dust & Dreaming Bread takes readers on a captivating journey through the landscapes, legends, and lore of Scotland. This rich tapestry of folk belief and folk magic uncovers the enduring connections between land, community, and spirit, rooted in the ancestral traditions of Scotland.From animistic practices and seasona...
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    29,85 €

  • BLACK ICE
    Rev. Dr. Gideon Adjei
    People of African descent originally populated the earth. They co-existed harmoniously with nature. However, at some point in history, their survival and continued progress was disrupted among other things by the Arab and Trans-Atlantic slave trades, imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism.Those painful and horrible events adversely impacted all dimensions of their well-b...
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    10,95 €

  • AMERICA AWRY
    Jeffrey K. Smith
    OTHER BOOKS BY JEFFREY K. SMITHFiction:Sudden DespairTwo Down, Two to GoA Phantom KillerNon-fiction narratives:Rendezvous in Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (two editions)The Fighting Little Judge: The Life and Times of George C. WallaceFire in the Sky: The Story of the Atomic BombBad Blood: Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, and the Tumultuous 1960s (two editio...
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    22,44 €

  • Reconstructing the Campus
    Michael David Cohen
    The Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath. The first book to examine the Civil War’s immediate and long-term impact on higher education, Reconstructing the Campus begins by tracing college communities’ respons...
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    41,97 €

  • A Concise History of Human Migration
    Barry Richardson
    Migration is the story of us all. From the first humans who ventured out of Africa to the millions who cross borders today, movement has shaped every chapter of our shared history. A Concise History of Human Migration traces this epic journey in vivid, accessible prose, bringing to life the resilience, imagination and courage that define humanity’s restless spirit.Spanning tens...
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    12,49 €

  • Protestant missionary children’s lives, c.1870-1950
    Hugh Morrison
    Protestant missionary children were uniquely ’empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that mis...
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    44,23 €

  • Land, Language, and Women
    Julie L. Reed
    Historians largely understand Native American education through the Indian boarding schools and reservation schools established by the US government during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Native Americans taught and learned from one another long before colonization, and while white settlers and institutions powerfully influenced Indigenous educational practices, the...
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    41,96 €

  • Fiske Guide to Colleges 2026
    Robert Friske
    Find Your Best-Fit College with the Ultimate Insider Guide!Streamline your college search with the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2026. This trusted resource offers candid profiles, exclusive ratings, and university acceptance rates and stats for 150+ top schools. Ideal for seniors navigating the college application process, high school students focused on college prep planning, and f...
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    38,71 €

  • The Holy Chain
    Clive Chisanga
    What if the strongest shackles were not made of iron, but of faith?For centuries, the narrative of African history has been written by the victors, painting a picture of a 'dark continent' saved by the light of Western civilisation. The Holy Chain shatters this illusion, exposing the uncomfortable and often silenced truth about the role of religious institutions in the subjugat...
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    16,82 €

  • 那年那月那场高考
    《那年那月那场高考:我们的1977》是一部由湖北中医学院七七级校友共同撰写的口述历史与时代回忆录。作者们以亲历者的视角,真实记录了1977年恢复高考这一历史转折点前后,普通青年艰难而炽热的人生轨迹。书中人物身份各异:有插队知青、工厂工人、乡村教师、部队战士,也有应届高中生;他们因时代被迫中断学业,又因恢复高考而获得命运重新开启的机会。全书以个人史串连时代史,从知青点的劳作、工厂的喧嚣、乡村课堂的清贫,到紧张备考的煤油灯与简陋复习资料,再现那个信息匮乏、资源稀缺却人人心怀希望的年代。这些看似普通的小人物,在大时代的浪潮中以坚韧与执着改变命运,每一篇文章都闪烁着朴实、真切的人性光芒。除了备考经历,作者们也回望更长的生命脉络:童年的求学环境、上山下乡的磨砺、入学后的青春与友谊、毕业后的奋斗与成就。个人命运与国家发展交织,使这部书既是一代人的青春史,也是改革...
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    33,72 €

  • Play in the Early Years
    Marilyn Fleer
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    102,84 €

  • That’s Not Strategy
    Michael Parsons
    That’s Not Strategy challenges the idea that busyness and planning equal progress in schools. Michael Parsons draws on two decades of international experience to show that real strategy begins with clarity, purpose, and intentional choices. Through relatable stories from classrooms and leadership rooms around the world, and through the lens of the Bullseye Strategy Model, he il...
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    15,86 €

  • Mixing
    Cheryl D Jenkins / Loren Saxton Coleman / Sherita L Johnson
    Clyde Kennard (1927-1963) was a determined and soft-spoken man whose fight to enroll at Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi) in the 1950s highlighted the broader struggle for racial equality in education. Kennard’s efforts to desegregate higher education remain lesser known, but his impact on the movement for educational equality is undeniab...
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    43,07 €

  • Jackson State University
    Lelia G Rhodes
    Before it was Jackson State University(R), it was Natchez Seminary, a school built on a vision of education and empowerment. In 1877, H. P. Jacobs and Black ministers from the Mississippi Baptist Missionary Convention, in partnership with the American Baptist Home Mission Society, founded Natchez Seminary to educate newly freed Black students. That institution grew into Jackson...
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    41,82 €

  • High School Students Unite!
    Aaron G. Fountain Jr.
    Mid-twentieth-century student activism is a pivotal chapter in American history. While college activism has been well documented, the equally vital contributions of high school students have often been overlooked. Only recently have scholars begun to recognize the transformative role teenagers played in reshaping American education.High School Students Unite! highlights the cru...
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    44,09 €

  • Summarised History of the English Language - Who, What, Where, When and How
    Shayne T Pattie
    Summarised History of the English Language is an engaging, accessible exploration of how English transformed from a cluster of early Germanic dialects into today’s global lingua franca. Written for curious learners, history lovers, educators, and anyone who has ever wondered why English is both fascinating and frustrating, this book traces the remarkable journey of the language...
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    13,44 €

  • John Brown’s Raid
    Arthur L. Sullivan / Contributor: William C. Everhart
    A lone figure stands against the tide of history, his actions echoing through the corridors of time. In the tumultuous landscape of 19th century America, the Harpers Ferry raid emerges as a pivotal moment, igniting the flames of the abolitionist movement and setting the stage for the Civil War era. This meticulously restored edition, brought back from obscurity by Alpha Edition...
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    16,88 €

  • Policies and Practice in Language Learning and Teaching
    This book brings together studies from Georgia, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, and the UK which explore links between policy and practice in language teaching in the twentieth century. ...
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    82,18 €

  • Children’s Emotions in Europe, 1500 - 1900
    Jeroen J. H. Dekker
    This book gives you the historical sensation of coming face to face with the bodily expression and regulation of children’s emotions over time. The study does this by encouraging you to look through the eyes of well-known artists, like Albrecht Dürer, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Jan Steen, Antony van Dyck, Rembrandt, and Titian in early modern Europe, and Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin...
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    50,64 €

  • The Many Faces of Grace
    J White
    Grace is one of humanity’s oldest and most enduring ideas - but what does it really mean?Across cultures, religions, languages, and eras, the word grace has carried countless shades of beauty, mercy, favor, compassion, and transcendence. The Many Faces of Grace takes readers on a sweeping journey through these interpretations, exploring how this single word has shaped spiritual...
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    9,47 €

  • My Three Sons
    Gabriel Obed David
    TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A RELIGION, BUT THE WAY GOD INTENDED US TO BE AT THE BEGINNING - HAVING A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM (AND EACH OTHER), WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. GOD CREATED US - MAN (AS HE DID THE ANGELS), TO BE CONNECTED TO HIM, FOREVER. WE NEED TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING THROUGH THE EYES OF GOD - THE WORLD, MAN, SCIENCE, HISTORY, FUTURE, ETC. - IN THE BIBLE. ONLY THE BIBLE IS TRUT...
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    26,29 €

  • Teach Like the Floor Is on Fire
    Jennie O’Kelley Gyford
    Discover an inspiring, relatable, and humorous teaching book that examines the evolution of education, points out its flaws, and offers some accessible solutions to build better classrooms.  Within the pages of Teach Like the Floor Is on Fire, teachers of all levels will find more than one nugget of gold they can put into practice. From page one, author and seasoned educator Je...
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    20,33 €

  • Walter Feinberg’s Democratic Vision
    Walter Feinberg
    Collects Walter Feinberg’s classic writings on the meaning of democracy for public education.For over fifty years, Walter Feinberg has been a leader in interpreting democracy in and its meaning for public education. In this collection, Feinberg explores the question of how to study education, the necessary role of history and philosophy in this endeavor, and the need for educat...
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    49,12 €

  • Sanitizing History
    Tariq El-Amin
    Sanitizing History: A children’s book for adults, because real history was way too uncomfortable, is a bold, satirical exploration of how America remembers its past and what it chooses to forget. Told in the visual and tonal style of a children’s book, this collection uses irony, innocence, and dark humor to expose the dangerous simplicity of 'feel-good' history.Through a serie...
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    31,92 €

  • American Education
    Milton Gaither / Wayne J. Urban
    American Education: A History, Seventh Edition is a comprehensive, highly regarded history of American education from precolonial times to the present. This much-anticipated seventh edition is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate History of Education courses. ...
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    115,77 €

  • Handbook on Teachers’ Work
    This book brings together research and writings that theorize and study teachers’ work.It will be of interest to teacher educators, policymakers, students, and researchers in the fields of Teachers’ Work, Curriculum Theory, Educational Policy and Politics, Foundations of Education, Multicultural Education, and Teacher Education. ...
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    217,59 €

  • Where is the Emergency?
    (Ret) Captain Scott A. Holst
    The chronicles of the Waterville Fire Department refer to the detailed, ongoing records and stories that capture its long and proud history. These chronicles are more than just dates and facts; they reflect the people, places, equipment, and pivotal events that shaped the department since its early beginnings in 1809.In realizing that a large wealth of material related to the c...
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    62,30 €

  • Conquista y evangelio las órdenes religiosas en la historia cristiana de El Salvador (1524-1770)
    Carlos E. Aguiluz
    Conquista y Evangelio: Las órdenes religiosas en la historia cristiana de El Salvador (1524-1770) de Carlos E. Aguiluz, es un estudio profundo y respetuoso que explora el papel crucial de las órdenes religiosas en la evangelización y conformación social de El Salvador durante el periodo colonial temprano. Aguiluz detalla cómo estas órdenes no solo difundieron la fe cristiana, s...
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    27,73 €